OK, everybody.  Stop dying.  Now.

Fred Cusick, voice of the Bruins — dead from cancer, age 90.  When I was a mere cubicle, me and Pa Bureau gathered around the set and watched hockey.  And Fred was there with us.  For those behind the Chowdah Curtain, he was hockey’s version of Walter Cronkite — no joke.

I learned a while back that a paralegal (since departed to greener pastures) was from New Hampshaah.  He had a Bruins tattoo on his arm.  So I played a little word association.  I said, “Fred Cusick.”  And he said instantaneously — “SCORE!!”  (Examples in Youtube clip below.)  Everybody in New England would have that come to mind just as quickly.

Busy day in the obituary department.

Mary Travers of Peter, Paul, and Mary Dead at 72 [TPM]

Henry Gibson dies at 73; original cast member of ‘Laugh-In’ [LA Times]

I love it when he states actual facts, and they look at him like he just sprouted a third eye (and I love mohawk guy).

And check out a new site: Look at This Fucking Teabagger.

And that’s just the overall count. Among self-identified New Jersey “conservatives,” 35 percent are either certain or unsure.

One in Three New Jersey Conservatives Thinks Obama Might Be the Anti-Christ [Washington Independent]

Boston College’s Scott T. Fitzgibbon:

This guy obviously missed his calling – he should be teaching at Regent or Pepperdine.

Boston College Law Professor in Anti-Gay Ad [Above the Law]

For those of you poor assholes with a job, congratulations, you may have made more money last year, especially once we account for inflation and all that boring-ass shit. For those of you without, keep enjoying staycationing in your foreclosures, suckers.

The New York Times has this article about how employed people are motherfucking rolling in it these days, like Richard Pryor in that one movie, and then has some sad metaphor about the unemployed:
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